Does the minimum spanning tree of a graph give

the shortest distance

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No.
Minimal spanning tree assures that the total weight of the tree is
kept at its minimum. But it doesnt mean that the distance between any
two nodes involved in the minimum-spanning tree is minimum.
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What is a spanning Tree?

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A spanning tree is a tree associated with a network. All the nodes of
the graph appear on the tree once. A minimum spanning tree is a
spanning tree organized so that the total edge weight between nodes is
minimized.

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28. Of the following tree structure, which is,

efficient considering
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(b) Complete Binary Tree.
By the method of elimination:
Full binary tree loses its nature when operations of insertions and
deletions are done. For incomplete binary trees, extra storage is
required and overhead of NULL node checking takes place. So complete
binary tree is the better one since the property of complete binary
tree is maintained even after operations like additions and deletions
are done on it.
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In RDBMS, what is the efficient data structure

used in the internal
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B+ tree. Because in B+ tree, all the data is stored only in leaf
nodes, that makes searching easier. This corresponds to the records
that shall be stored in leaf nodes.
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What are the types of Collision Resolution
Techniques and the methods
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Open addressing (closed hashing),
The methods used include:
Overflow block,
Closed addressing (open hashing)
The methods used include:
Linked list,
Binary tree

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Classify the Hashing Functions based on the

various methods by which
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Direct method,
Subtraction method,
Modulo-Division method,
Digit-Extraction method,
Mid-Square method,
Folding method,
Pseudo-random method.

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There are 8, 15, 13, 14 nodes were there in 4

different trees. Which
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15.
In general:
There are 2n-1 nodes in a full binary tree.
By the method of elimination:
Full binary trees contain odd number of nodes. So there cannot be full
binary trees with 8 or 14 nodes, so rejected. With 13 nodes you can
form a complete binary tree but not a full binary tree. So the correct
answer is 15.
Note:
Full and Complete binary trees are different. All full binary trees
are complete binary trees but not vice versa.

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What is the bucket size, when the overlapping and

collision occur at
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One. If there is only one entry possible in the bucket, when the
collision occurs, there is no way to accommodate the colliding value.
This results in the overlapping of values.

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In an AVL tree, at what condition the balancing is

to be done?
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If the pivotal value (or the Height factor) is greater than 1 or
less than 1.

List out few of the applications that make use of

Multilinked
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Sparse matrix,
Index generation.

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List out few of the Application of tree data-

structure?
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The manipulation of Arithmetic expression,

Symbol Table construction,
Syntax analysis.

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Sorting is not possible by using which of the
following methods?(a)
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(d) Deletion.
Using insertion we can perform insertion sort, using selection we can
perform selection sort, using exchange we can perform the bubble sort
(and other similar sorting methods). But no sorting method can be done
just using deletion.

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Convert the expression ((A + B) * C (D E) ^

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Prefix Notation:
^ * +ABC DE + FG Postfix Notation:
AB + C * DE - FG + ^

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What are the notations used in Evaluation of

Arithmetic Expressions
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Polish and Reverse Polish notations.

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What is the data structures used to perform

recursion?
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Stack. Because of its LIFO (Last In First Out) property it remembers

its caller so knows whom to return when the function has to return.
Recursion makes use of system stack for storing the return addresses
of the function calls.
Every recursive function has its equivalent iterative (non-recursive)
function. Even when such equivalent iterative procedures are written,
explicit stack is to be used.
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Minimum number of queues needed to implement

the priority queue?
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Two. One queue is used for actual storing of data and another for
storing priorities.

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If you are using C language to implement the

heterogeneous linked
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The heterogeneous linked list contains different data types in its

nodes and we need a link, pointer to connect them. It is not possible
to use ordinary pointers for this. So we go for void pointer. Void
pointer is capable of storing pointer to any type as it is a generic
pointer type.
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What are the major data structures used in the

following areas :
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RDBMS Array (i.e. Array of structures)

Network data model Graph
Hierarchical data model Trees

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